Natasha and Other Stories

Copyright

Natasha and Other Stories

© 2004 by Nada Films, Inc.

P.S. section © David Bezmozgis 2005

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following magazines, in whose pages these stories originally appeared in slightly different form: Grain, Harper’s, paperplates, Prairie Fire, The New Yorker, The Walrus, and Zoetrope.

The author wishes to thank his agent, Ira Silverberg, for his faith and wise counsel, and his editor, Lorin Stein, for the clarity and consistency of his editorial vision.

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First Harper Flamingo Canada hardcover edition: 2004

This Harper Perennial trade paperback edition: 2005

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Bezmozgis, David, 1973—

Natasha and other stories / David Bezmozgis. —

2nd ed.

ISBN-13: 978-0-00-639322-1

ISBN-10: 0-00-639322-5

1. Latvians — Ontario — Toronto — Fiction.

2. Jews — Ontario — Toronto — Fiction. I. Title.

PS8603.E95N38 2005 C813’.6 C2005-901839-9

HC 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1